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ANNOUNCE: Alexa voice control(development thread)

Quoting meep (meep.7xz7xc (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com):
>
> Hello thread watchers
>
> Alpha v0.2 has been released to the test group. I've also sent invites
> to people who have expressed interest recently. If you think you should
> have received an invite and have not, apologies, I missed you for some
> reason. Please PM me here and I'll add you in.

If you're an Amazon Alexa user, you owe it to yourself to try this
out... biggest game-changer for me since iPeng.

Happy to say that I was able to get everything installed today without any issues and successfully paused and resumed play using voice commands on my Echo Dot with the Alexa plugin in LMS. Looking forward to doing some additional testing and helping further the development of this amazing plugin.

All playback devices will be volume reduced to 10% during extended listening. It's a blunt instrument to test the overall efficacy of this solution to see if we can minimise false commands resulting from Alexa responding to song lyrics.

In extended listening mode, volume change commands may not work as anticipated due to volume levelling

List and Status responses may not return the correct player volume settings in extended listening mode.

Users should respond to Alexa prompts with known commands only. Polite 'yes' and 'no' are not yet supported.

Video Demo

Here's a new video demo showing some of the recent features such as audio volume reduction while Alexa is listening, the ability to configure extended listening & re-prompts, list and status reports and some other stuff.

Apologies for the music selection - it's the only playlist I have in my test LMS, a timely reminder of when the project started